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Democrats Don’t Understand The “McConnell Rule”

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Now that Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has announced his retirement, Democrats are insisting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell abide by the same rationale he used to thwart President Obama from naming his own replacement to the Court in 2016. Namely, the Senate will not consider a Supreme Court nominee during an election year.

This unprecedented move by the Senate leader has come to be known as the “McConnell Rule.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has called on McConnell to play by his own rule now that a vacancy will soon be taking place on the high court because of Kennedy’s departure. After all, 2018 is also an election year.

To do otherwise, said Schumer, would be the “height of hypocrisy.”

What Schumer and the rest of his fellow Democrats don’t understand is that there is only one true McConnell rule. It’s called, “I win, you lose.” McConnell has proven time and again he will do whatever it takes to win.

Democrats think they can shame McConnell into doing the right thing? They believe they can convince the evil genius to play fairly?

Without wasting a moment after Kennedy’s announcement, McConnell declared, “The Senate stands ready to fulfill its constitutional role by offering advice and consent on President Trump’s nominee to fill this vacancy. We will vote to confirm Justice Kennedy’s successor this fall.”

Good luck Chuck!

Dems just don’t get it. They are dealing with pure ruthlessness. Trying to use the “fair play” card with McConnell is as useless as pushing water uphill with a rake.

The best Democrats can hope for is that enough moderate Republicans block any extreme right-wing jurist Donald Trump is sure to nominate.

If history is any guide, I wouldn’t hold my breath.

As the front page of the NY Daily News aptly stated, “We’re F*#%’D.”

Barack Obama was right … “Elections have consequences.”

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Like Congress, Supremes Fall In Line

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Donald Trump is a wannabe dictator, we all know that. And he has been aided and abetted in his pursuit of absolute power by a feckless and subservient Congress.

Now we have the United States Supreme Court falling in line.

In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court has upheld Trump’s Muslim travel ban. The basic rationale? Trump, as president, has the constitutional power to decide issues of national security. So when Trump said he was proposing his travel ban against mostly Muslim countries to protect the homeland, that was good enough for the five conservative members of the Court.

It didn’t matter that lower courts had struck down each and every iteration of Trump’s travel ban, the first of which was issued in January 2017. It didn’t concern the Supremes that each lower court found that the initial order, and each new version since, exceeded the president’s authority granted by Congress and was motivated by Trump’s prejudice against Muslims.

If Trump said it wasn’t about religion but national security, then that was just fine for the deferential justices. All evidence to the contrary be damned! It doesn’t matter that the man occupying the White House is a pathological liar.

We are living through dangerous times. It is obvious our two other supposed co-equal branches of government … legislative and judicial … are not going to challenge Trump’s power grab.

The only way to begin getting out of this mess is to flip Congress in November.

Of course today’s decision wound not have been possible but for Mitch McConnell’s unprecedented move to block President Obama from nominating a replacement on the Court after the unexpected death of Antonin Scalia.

Here’s a thought. What happens when Trump declares that, as president, it is his responsibility to protect all life, both born and unborn? What happens when il Duce proclaims all abortions illegal?

I’m afraid to think what this conservative court, thanks to the illegal seat occupied by Neil Gorsuch, will decide.

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U.S. May Yet Get Its First Female President

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President Pelosi… the title has a nice alliterative ring to it, don’t you think?

Yes, while the possibility of the California representative ever moving into the White House is slimmer than a germ’s chance at a Lysol convention, it’s fun, and heck downright delicious, to consider!

Here’s the scenario. First, Democrats regain control of the House (and maybe the Senate, for good measure) after the mid-term elections. Following explosive revelations by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller of the Trump regime’s wrongdoing, the House impeaches both Trump and Pence. The Senate then votes to convict both and removes them from office at the same time.  Of course, House Democrats would have to vote Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House once again. But as the next in line to the presidency, Pelosi becomes the nation’s 46th president.

If this farfetched scenario were ever to happen, it would not take place in 2018 but 2019, when the new Congress organizes in January. So the earliest this theoretical Democratic majority could consider articles of impeachment would be the start of the new year..

Hey, almost anything is possible, no matter how ridiculously unlikely. Remember when we all thought there was no way in hell we would ever mouth the words “President Trump?”

“Dreams, if they’re any good, are always a little bit crazy. ”
― Ray Charles

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U.S. Offers Free Summer Camp To Migrant Children

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Leave it to Fox News host Laura Ingraham to set the record straight. While some have called the federal detention centers, set up for brown children seeking refuge in the United States, “prisons” or “concentration camps,” Ingraham likened the facilities to “essentially summer camps.”

Is there any wonder why immigrant parents fleeing gang violence within there countries are rushing to our southern border to enroll their kids?

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Just What Kind Of Dad Is Donald Trump?

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Donald Trump is a “great father”… according to Donald Trump.

Now that Father’s Day is here, let’s look at what Trump’s own family has said about the man who claims to be the best dad on earth. Is Trump’s self-assessment an exaggeration … or another outright lie?

According to an article in Proudemocrat.com, what Trump’s family had to say about his parenting skills “isn’t exactly heartwarming.”

Trump’s first wife, Ivana, confirmed he has “never changed a diaper” and was too busy “making the business” to play with his kids.

On the Ray D’Arcy show last year she said that Trump “loved the kids but he would not really be the dad who would take them for a stroll … go and play soccer with them or do something like that. He was always on the phone making the business.”

Marla Maples, Trump’s second wife, has said that when it came to raising their daughter, Tiffany, Trump was generous with his money – but not his time.

Don Jr. has been quoted as saying “My father could be more understanding of the things he doesn’t … understand. You Know? If I want to go fishing rather than play golf, it’s always like, ‘Why would you go fishing all weekend? I don’t get it! It’s crazy!’”

Eric Trump has confessed Trump wasn’t exactly the best father figure. “Donnie’s always been my friend, a mentor,” Eric said of his older brother in 2006. “In a way, he raised me. My father, I love and appreciate, but he always worked 24 hours a day.”

Ivanka Trump, no doubt Daddy’s favorite, said in a 2004 interview with New York Magazine, she and her siblings “were sort of bred to be competitive.”

Tiffany, Trump’s younger daughter, has probably had the least to do with her father. In November 2016, Trump told Fox & Friends how proud he was of all his adult kids, but “to a lesser extent … Tiffany.”

Perhaps nothing explains Trump’s view of fatherhood better than this excerpt from a 2005 interview with Howard Stern. Trump said he “won’t do anything to take care of” his kids. “I’ll supply funds and she’ll take care of the kids. It’s not like I’m gonna be walking the kids down Central Park. Marla used to say, ‘I can’t believe you’re not walking Tiffany down the street, you know in a carriage. Right, I’m gonna be walking down Fifth Avenue with a baby in a carriage. It just didn’t work.’”

There you have it. Being a good father for the man currently occupying the White House is all about “supplying funds” to your kids.

Happy Father’s day to all the “real” dads out there.

Photo | metro.co.uk

 

 

 

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